that stage of a meloid larva in which it
resembles a white grub or Scarabid larva.

Scarified: a surface with irregular depressions, as if clawed or
scratched.

Scariose -ous: dry and scaly.

Scatophagous: feeding upon dung or excrement:= merdivorous.

Scent glands, or organs: glandular structures; sometimes eversible,
sometimes in the form of hair tufts or pencils for diffusing odors that
may be repellant or attractive; most frequently found in males as a
secondary sexual character.

Scent pores: = ostioles; q.v.

Sclerite: any piece of the body wall bounded by sutures.

Scopa: a brush: a covering of short, stiff hair of equal length: in
Hymenoptera, the thick hair covering the posterior tibia of
pollen-gathering forms.

Scopate: furnished with a scopa.

Scopula: a small, dense tuft of hair: the bristles or stiff hairs covering
the inner side of basal joint on the tarsi of pollen-gathering
Hymenoptera.

Scopulipedes: bees which have pollen gathering structures on the feet.

Scraper: the hardened portion of the inner margin of the tegmina in
crickets used in producing the song.

Scriptus: lettered or marked with characters resembling letters.

Scrobes: grooves formed for the reception or concealment of an
appendage specifically, in Rhynchophora, grooves at the sides of the
rostrum to receive the scape of antenna 2: also applied to grooves on
the sides of mandibles: in Hymenoptera, the usually circular
impressions upon the frons, in which the scapes revolve: in
Orthoptera, the pits in which the antenna; are situate.

Scrobiculated: having the surface covered with deep round pits.

Scrotal membrane: the envelope covering the testes in some insects.

Scrotiform: purse-shaped.

Scrotum: = scrotal membrane; q, v.

Sculpture: the markings or pattern of impression or elevation on an
elytra or other body surface.

Sculptured: a surface, when marked with elevations or depressions or
both, arranged in some definite manner.

Scutate-iform: shield or buckler-shaped.

Scutcheon: = scutellum; q.v.: also used by some authors (Walker) for
the pronotum in Homoptera.

Scutel: = scutellum: q.v.

Scutellar angle: of elytra is next to the scutel when wing is expanded.

Scutellar bridge: in Diptera, a small ridge on either side of the
Scutellum, connecting it with the mesonotum.

Scutellar space: in Mantids, an area between antennae and clypeus.

Scutellate: dish- or platter-shaped.

Scutellum: the third